side as well. John 14 probes this comprehensively. The chapter is part of Jesus’s ‘farewell discourses’, where his ‘farewell’ means his dying for the redemption of the world, and the redemption of the world is linked with the coming of ‘the Paraclete’, as the Holy Spirit is called here: ‘If I do not go away, the Counsellor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you’ (16:7). Here the new beginning of life in the Holy Spirit is directly linked with the mystery of redemption. Through
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